A Guide to Starting Your Own Blog
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A Guide to Starting Your Own Blog

For those of you who want to write independently.

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A Guide to Starting Your Own Blog
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For those of you who read my last article about starting your own blog, I just wanted to show how easy it is. This article will be full of screenshots as I dust off my old blog and show you how to start a new one.

So to blow off the dust...


Phew. Look at that. A junior. Well, I'm going to update that now. "SENIOR." And maybe a few more sentences.

It looks like it has been 5 months since I have done anything on here. One of my goals for the new year was to get a blog up and running, but I chose to write for the Odyssey. With the demands of that, I couldn't keep up with my own blog on top. I was bombarded with emails and reminders to write and share and this and that, and I could not think in order to write for me. But that is changing now. I forgot how cool Wordpress is.

Here's how you can create your very own blog!

First do some research into the different sites. Wordpress, Tumblr, Blog.com, Blogger, Medium.com, Penzu, and Weebly just to name a few. You will want to think about what kinds of things you will be sharing with the world. If you are an artist and will be sharing visuals of your artwork or your music, Tumblr is a better choice for you. If you will be doing more writing, then Wordpress or one of the others would be a better fit for you. I went with Wordpress because it was the least intimidating to me.

Here is www.wordpress.com.

You will click "get started," and it will take you to this page.

This will take you through a series of questions determining what your blog/website will be about. They can get pretty specific. After you answer these questions, they want you to pick your layout and theme (don't worry, you can change them later).

Then you pick your domain.

Wordpress then gives you three plan options. I went with the free one because I'm just trying out the whole blog thing. If you are feeling really ambitious, you can get a paid plan to gain things like customization options and your own domain name. If you ever get to the point where you want to make money off your blog, I believe you have to move it from the free blog to a new domain which you must purchase. I'm not there, so I don't really know.

Then you will create your username and password, and YOU'RE DONE.

Well, not really. You still have to write your first post. But if you've gone this far, you can explore more on your own.

I hope you all make your own blogs and start writing for yourself.

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